Senior Network Engineer
Senior Network Engineer (Health Manager Level 4)
- Permanent On-going Opportunity
- In-office presence with hybrid flexibility | Chatswood, St Leonards, or Charlestown
- Attractive salary, up to $169,151 + 12% Super + 17.5% annual leave loading
- Accrue up to 12 extra days off per year + 4 weeks annual leave
- Join the team enriching health in millions of ways every day through digital innovation
Applications Close: 11:59pm, Tuesday, 23 September
About Us – eHealth NSW
At eHealth NSW, we’re leading the digital transformation of Australia’s largest health system. As NSW Health’s digital centre of excellence, we design, build and support world-class ICT solutions that improve patient care across the state.
Guided by a Cloud First Strategy, we’re harnessing digital technology to better patient care and deliver scalable, quality, patient-centred, digital healthcare. With your skills and experience, you can help enrich the lives of millions while developing your career within Australia’s largest health organisation - alongside passionate tech professionals, health partners and industry leaders building solutions that truly make a difference.
About the Opportunity
As Senior Network Engineer of our Secure Service Edge Team at eHealth NSW, you will help make a real difference in healthcare through continuously improving services and developing products under the Secure Service Edge Platform, enabling fast and secure connectivity of vital systems used by the clinicians of NSW.
This role offers the opportunity to play a key part in enhancing and maturing our Secure Service Edge platform, delivering modern Zero Trust and least privilege connectivity to critical healthcare applications. You will contribute to automation initiatives that simplify and streamline business processes, creating self-service outcomes for our customers, while also supporting a culture of knowledge sharing by helping to educate peers, stakeholders, and customers on the importance and transformational potential of Zero Trust Network and Internet Access.
In this role, you will:
- Build, develop, and maintain complex and critical projects, ensuring technical governance
- Participate in consultation process, by understanding both business and customer needs as the SME of SSE platform
- Develop technical roadmaps and business processes for operational matters, including managing the relationship between the business and managed service providers
- Collaborate with team, wider business, and external partners – including conducting knowledge sharing sessions and education as a SME
Be an example of agile ways of working through continuous self-growth, ensuring skills align to changing business needs and/or customer requirements
This role is internally referred to as Senior Systems Engineer.
About You
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Extensive demonstrated experience in network security engineering, including intermediate knowledge with cloud-delivered security services or SSE technologies.
- Expert knowledge of SSE technologies, frameworks (SWG, CASB, ZTNA, FWaaS) and associated vendors.
- Strong understanding of Zero Trust principles and secure access models.
- Hands-on experience managing policies across multi-tenant environments.
- Experience with automation & orchestration (Python, Terraform, Azure Pipelines or equivalent).
- Solid knowledge of routing, VPN, DNS, TLS/SSL, and other network fundamentals.
- Familiarity with frameworks such as NIST CSF, ISO 27001, and CIS Controls.
- Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills.
Desirable Skills
- Experience with large-scale, global enterprise deployments.
- Knowledge of broader SASE components (e.g., SD-WAN, DLP, IoT security).
- Cloud security and compliance experience with Azure, AWS, and/or GCP.
- Relevant certifications from Zscaler, Netskope, Cisco, Public Cloud Platforms, etc
Need more information?
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Working at eHealth
Our people are at the heart of who we are. We support our people with great benefits so they can enrich health in millions of ways every day:
- Flexible work options
- Professional growth and career development
- Allocated day off per month
- Salary packaging
- Various health and wellbeing programs to support our team
How to apply
Share with us your cover letter and most up to date resume (up to 5 pages), highlighting your relevant skills and experience.
We recognise that AI tools are increasingly being used to assist with resumes and applications. While we accept their use, we’re eager to see your personality and get to know the person behind the application!
For further discussions around the role or recruitment process, including adjustments, please contact our Talent Advisor or Hiring Manager, Joshua Monaro-Adams and quote REQ602031.
We will review all applications after the closing date. If your application is successful, you may be invited to take part in additional assessments as part of the recruitment process.
Additional information
- This recruitment may be used to create a Talent Pool for similar future roles (ongoing or temporary) that may arise over the next 18 months.
- To be eligible for this role you must have current Australian work rights (Australian citizen, permanent resident, New Zealand citizen with a current passport, or hold a valid visa with permission to work in Australia).
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